South Shore residents rally against Whitaker appointment

Kate Walsh @MarinerKate

Friday

Nov 9, 2018 at 5:00 PM

Residents of the South Shore came together Thursday night, Nov. 8 to protest President Donald Trump replacing Rod Rosenstein with just-named Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as special counsel Robert Mueller's boss on the Trump-Russia investigation.

Rallies were held across the country Thursday night to protest Trump’s “crossing a red line set to protect the investigation.”

The South Shore rally was held in Rockland at the Rockland Park/Ride Lot along routes 3 and 228.

Rosenstein has been overseeing Mueller’s special investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election for the past 18 months due to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusing himself from the investigation when he failed in his Senate Confirmation hearing to disclose two pre-election meetings with a Russian ambassador at a time when Moscow was accused with interfering with the 2016 presidential race.

Sessions was fired as Attorney General by President Trump on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

Deborah Cornwall, Marshfield resident and leader of an activist group called Sneakers Laced Up South Shore, was in attendance at the Rockland rally holding a sign that read “Scared Donnie? Hands off Mueller”.

“After firing the Attorney General, he [Trump] has appointed to be acting Attorney General a person who has stated overtly, without any substantive information, that the Mueller investigations are a witch hunt,” said Cornwall. “He's using the president's words and is clearly ready to take away its funding to starve it. It appears that he was put in place with the assignment to kill the investigation, with no pretence of objectivity.”